‘STEM humor’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “A Christmas Protestation ”, o1-pro et al 2024
- “Gwern Visits BAIR ”, Liu & Gwern 2025
- “Conference Fermi Problems ”, Gwern 2025
- “Human Cannibalism Alignment Chart ”, Gwern et al 2025
- “The Meta-LW Doomsday Argument ”, Gwern 2025
- “DMT Factoring Experiment Cost Estimate ”, Gwern 2015
- “Second Life Sentences ”, Gwern 2024
- “The Carcinisation of Satan ”, Gwern 2024
- “On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers ”, Gwern et al 2023
- “Paperclip Alignment Chart ”, Gwern 2023
- “Rare Greek Variables ”, Gwern 2021
- “Gilles Goullet, Author of the Blindsight ”, Gwern 2010
- Links
- “Placebo Emporium: 2025 Annual Shareholder Letter ”, Troesh 2025
- “The Fine Art of Being Too Dumb to Regulate; Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Betting on Earnings Buzzwords ”, Vagabonds 2025
- “My Antichrist Lecture: Forecasting Transformative AI Using the Book of Revelation [Anthropic gematria] ”, Alexander 2025
- The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding, Rubin 2025
- “[Social Acceptability of Eating Human Meat Alignment Chart] ”, Hero 2025
- “You Can Never Reproduce The Same Bug Twice Demotivational Poster ”, Gwern 2025
- “NeuRaLaTeX: A Machine Learning Library Written in Pure LaTeX ”, Gardner et al 2025
- “A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon ”, Barber 2025
- “Regex Chess: A 2-Ply Minimax Chess Engine in 84,688 Regular Expressions ”, Carlini 2025
- “Trajectoid ”, Weinersmith 2024
- “Age against the Machine—Susceptibility of Large Language Models to Cognitive Impairment: Cross Sectional Analysis ”
- “A Numerical Evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem ”, Woodcock & Falletta 2024
- “How a Silly Science Prize Changed My Career: A Levitating Frog, a Necrophiliac Duck, Taxi Drivers’ Brains—The Ig Nobel Prizes Have Shined a Spotlight on Offbeat Work. Here’s an inside Look at How Winners Feel about This Sometimes Unwanted ‘Honor’ ”, Clarke 2024
- “On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers [Claude-3.5-Sonnet] ”, Claude-3 2024
- “Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whales [Terminal Velocity: 178.3 M/s] ”, Ferguson 2024
- “A Programming Language Embedded in Magic: The Gathering ”, Yin & Churchill 2024
- “An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming ”, Blumer et al 2024
- “Are We Safe from Lightning Inside Buildings? A Study of Lightning Fatalities Inside Buildings Using Smartphones ”, Souza et al 2024
- “Polyamorous Scheduling ”, Gąsieniec et al 2024
- “An Incomplete Primer of Caselaw Appertaining To Bigfoot, AKA Sasquatch, LNU ”, White 2024
- “IOCCC 2024: Stedolan—Best One Liner ”
- “Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate) ”, saturn2 2023
- “A LLM Assisted Exploitation of AI-Guardian ”, Carlini 2023
- “The American Psychiatric Association Says Disney Adults Don’t Have to Worry About This Problem Anymore ”, Burkett 2023
- “Can a Good Philosophical Contribution Be Made Just by Asking a Question? ”, Habgood-Coote et al 2022
- “Immaterials and Methods: Reagents for the Total Laboratory Synthesis of the Chocolate Chip Cookie ”, Schlonk 2022
- “A Modest Spelling Reform to Increase Autologicity, Symmetry, and Readability ”
- “Rare Greek Variables ”, Bayer 2021
- “Flinch ”, Munroe 2021
- “Proposed Detection of Ghosts by Mass Spectrometry-Spectral Presence Origin-Omics Kinetic Yield (MS-SPOOKY) ”, Schlonk 2021
- “Are Cats Good? An Important Study ”, Owen & Lamon 2021b
- “My Cat Chester’s Dynamical Systems Analysyyyyy7777777777777777y7is of the Laser Pointer and the Red Dot on the Wall: Correlation, Causation, or SARS-Cov-2 Hallucination? ”, Armstrong & Chester 2021
- “How Fast Can Evangelion Run? Application Of Aerodynamics And Scaling Laws To The Super Robot ”, Ryu et al 2020
- “The Treachery of Image Files ”, Earnest 2020
- “My Immortal As Alchemical Allegory ”, Alexander 2020
- “Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head ”, Merity 2019
- “A Mulching Proposal ”, Keyes et al 2019
- “30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World ”, Tom7 2019
- “Real Numbers, Data Science and Chaos: How to Fit Any Dataset With a Single Parameter ”, Boué 2019
- “Spooky Fizz Buzz § Pg42 ”, Menghrajani 2019 (page 42)
- “Allism Spectrum Disorders: A Parody ”, Vance 2018
- “Blueberry Earth ”, Sandberg 2018
- “The Random Walk of Cars and Their Collision Probabilities With Planets ”, Rein et al 2018
- “Super-Earths in Need for Extremely Big Rockets ”, Hippke 2018
- “An Exploratory Study of ‘Selfitis’ and the Development of the Selfitis Behavior Scale ”, Balakrishnan & Griffiths 2017
- “It’s a Man Eat Man World ”, Graham et al 2017
- “How Sheep With Cameras Got Some Tiny Islands onto Google Street View ”, Brulliard 2017
- “Factoring in the Chicken McNugget Monoid ”, Chapman & O’Neill 2017
- “F—K Nuance ”, Healy 2017
- “On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines ”, Garfinkel et al 2017
- “Seasonality of Auricular Amputations in Rabbits ”, Yaremchuk et al 2017
- “Sheep View: Where There’s a Wool, There’s a Way ”, Vega 2016
- “[Aristotle], On Trolling ”, Barney 2016
- “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home [With Commentary] ”, Raine & Welford 2016
- “Identifying the Source of Perytons at the Parkes Radio Telescope ”, Petroff et al 2015
- “Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency: a Model for Male Audience Stimulation ”, Chugtai & Gilfoyle 2014
- “Heaven Is Hotter Than Hell & A Refutation ”, Simanek 2014
- “The DSM-5: A Dystopian Novel ”, Kriss 2014
- “A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors ”, Goodman et al 2014
- “Two Curious Integrals and a Graphic Proof ”, Schmid 2014
- “Searching the Internet for Evidence of Time Travelers ”, Nemiroff & Wilson 2013
- “XKCD Plots Have Landed in Matplotlib! ”
- “[What Deals Should the Devil Optimally Betray in Any given Social Graph?] ”, Schou 2013
- “Robert Bunsen’s Sweet Tooth ”, Jensen 2013
- “Your Right Arm For A Publication In AER? ”, Attema et al 2013
- “Vigil, the Eternal Morally Vigilant Programming Language ”, munificent 2013
- “The Survival Time of Chocolates on Hospital Wards: Covert Observational Study ”, Gajendragadkar et al 2013
- “Is The NIH A Cult? ”, Eisen 2012
- “Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific ”, Tippett 2012
- “On the Tumbling Toast Problem ”, Borghi 2012
- “Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate ”, Gunji et al 2012
- “Non-Detection of the Tooth Fairy at Optical Wavelengths ”, Armstrong 2012
- “Gods As Topological Invariants ”, Schoch 2012
- “Seat Up or Down? ”, Haslam 2012
- “Tiramisu [Lexical Gaps in English Borrowing from Latin] ”, Pullum 2011
- “A Parasite from Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin Proved That Lenin Was a Mushroom ”, Yurchak 2011
- “Up Or Down? A Male Economist’s Manifesto On The Toilet Seat Etiquette ”, Choi 2011
- “Quantum Computation With Devices Whose Contents Are Never Read ”, Yakaryilmaz et al 2010
- “Where ‘Things Go The Other Way’: The Stereochemistry of Lewis Carroll’s Looking-Glass World ”, O’Leary 2010
- “The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution ”, Mankiw & Weinzierl 2010
- “Are Birds Smarter Than Mathematicians? Pigeons (Columba Livia) Perform Optimally on a Version of the Monty Hall Dilemma ”, Herbranson & Schroeder 2010
- “The Name Is Shrdlu… Etaoin Shrdlu ”, D. 2009
- “Woosh: A Wonderful Object-Oriented Shell Environment [Unix Directories As Objects] ”, mhinsch 2009
- “The Slows ”, Hareven 2009
- “Time Variation of a Fundamental Dimensionless Constant ”, Scherrer 2009
- “Fill’Er Up With Human Fat [Liposuctioned Human Fat As Biodiesel Fuel] ”, Forbes 2008
- “Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan ”, Smith 2008
- “BREATHTAKING Design Strategy ”, Group 2008
- “Possible Girls ”, Sinhababu 2008
- “Down-Sizing Forever ”, Scott & Frolop 2008
- The SICP Saga, Anonymous 2008
- “Rugby (The Religion of Wales) and Its Influence on the Catholic Church: Should Pope Benedict XVI Be Worried? ”, Payne 2008
- “Of Cinema, Food, and Desire: Franz Kafka’s ‘Investigations of a Dog’ ”, Williams 2007
- “Sex, Aggression, and Humour: Responses to Unicycling ”, Shuster 2007
- “The Wisdom of Hendrik W. Lenstra Junior ”, Magidin 2006
- “Serge Lang, 1927–2005 § Part 1: Paul Vojta, University of California, Berkeley ”, Jorgenson & Krantz 2006 (page 12)
- “We Are Sorry to Inform You... ”, Santini 2005
- “A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Esthetics ”, Mateas & Montfort 2005
- “Patent Office Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein ”, Norvig 2005
- “The Case of the Disappearing Teaspoons: Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Displacement of Teaspoons in an Australian Research Institute ”, Lim et al 2005
- “An Adventure in Stereochemistry: Alice in Mirror Image Land ”, Dinan & Yee 2004
- “Is Graduate School a Cult? ”, Pannapacker 2004
- “Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty: an Early Report of Prosopagnosia? ”, Larner 2004
- “Some AI Koans § Http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241 ”, Raymond 2003
- “Some AI Koans ”, Raymond 2003
- “Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass ”, Kovar 2002
- “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Ate There ”, Yee 2002
- “Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical: What Is Neurotypical Syndrome? ”, muskie 2002
- “A Tour of Accounting: Random Number Generator [Dilbert] ”, Adams 2001
- “The Temperature of Heaven and Hell [Retrospective] ”, Pérez 2001
- “Storks Deliver Babies (p = 0.008) ”, Matthews 2001
- “Some Remarkable Properties of Sinc and Related Integrals ”, Borwein & Borwein 2001
- “A Closer Look at Tumbling Toast ”, Bacon et al 2001
- “The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer ”, Ruehr 2001
- “Is Hell Endothermic or Exothermic? Old Collegiate Legend Involves a Student’s Coming up With a Clever Proof about the Physical Properties of Hell ”, Mikkelson 2000
- “More US Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder ”, Onion 2000
- “Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible ”, Onion 2000
- “A Letter from the Frustrated Author of a Journal Paper ”, Glass 2000
- “What Do Animals Do All Day? The Division of Labor, Class Bodies, and Totemic Thinking in the Popular Imagination ”, Martin 2000
- “Klingon Programmers ”, Baker 1999
- “I M A G I N E ”, Krishnamurthi 1996
- “Tumbling Toast, Murphy’s Law and the Fundamental Constants ”, Matthews 1995
- “Knockdown Arguments ”, Wreen 1995
- “The Love Song of J. Random Hacker ”, Duntemann 1995
- “(Para)bosons, (Para)fermions, Quons and Other Beasts in the Menagerie of Particle Statistics ”, Greenberg et al 1993
- “Szeged in 1934 ”, Lorch & Hersh 1993
- “A Proposal to Classify Happiness As a Psychiatric Disorder ”, Bentall 1992
- Geoffrey Sonnabend: Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter—An Encapsulation (Fourth Edition, Abridged), Worth 1991
- “Mustard Watches: An Integrated Approach To Time and Food ”, Ringard et al 1990
- “What’s Wrong With This Lagrangean? ”, Mermin 1988
- “Presentation Announcement / Automatic Weapons, Parts I–III ”, Shivers 1987
- “The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood ”, Smoller 1986
- “The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech ”, Gordon 1984
- “Humour: The Interdisciplinary Denominator in Science ”, Kohn 1982
- “An Epistemological Nightmare ”, Smullyan 1982
- “Child’s Play: A Distorting Factor in Archaeological Distribution ”, Hammond & Hammond 1981
- “A Rebuke of A. B. Smith‘s Paper, 'A Note on Piffles’ ”, Farlow 1980
- “Paul Darwin Foote (1888–1971) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell ”, Astin 1979 (page 12)
- “The First Sally (A), Or, Trurl’s Electronic Bard § Love And Tensor Algebra ”, Lem & Kandel 1974 (page 7)
- “Principia Discordia (1970) ”
- “On the Enfeeblement of Mathematical Skills by ‘Modern Mathematics’ and by Similar Soft Intellectual Trash in Schools and Universities ”, Hammersley 1968
- “A Note On Piffles, By A. B. Smith ”, Austin 1967
- A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age, Baker 1963
- “On The Nature Of Mathematical Proof ”, Cohen 1961
- “Hiawatha’s Lipid ”, Sinclair 1960
- “Mathmanship ”, Vanserg 1958
- “How to Write Geologese ”, Vansberg 1952
- “How Newton Discovered the Law of Gravitation ”, Miller 1951
- “A Royal Practical Joke ”, Oesper 1948
- “Investigations of a Dog ”, Kafka et al 1922
- “The Chaos ”, Trenité 1922
- “Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions, Free to a Good Home ”
- “Theological Engineering Exam ”, Anonymous 2026
- “Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers ”
- “Bahfest ”
- “Determining Cat Chirality ”
- The Space Child’s Mother Goose, Regehr 2026
- “A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism ”
- “How to Install Linux on a Dead Badger ”
- “
roguetype: The First Ever Rogue-Like Written in the OCaml Type System ”, Octachron 2026 - “Extremely Linear Git History ”, zegl 2026
- “The Hardest Chess Problem in the World? ”
- “HTTP Cats ”
- “Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann? ”
- “King James Programming ”
- “Occupy Babel! ”
- “The New Economics of Chess ”
- “How Can I Draw a Homer Simpson With Epicycloids? ”
- “A Congress of Robert Reichs ”
- “Does Garlic Protect against Vampires? An Experimental Study ”
- “Blogging versus Blog Setups ”
- “The Association for Computational Heresy ”
- “SIGBOVIK 2019 ”
- “Turing-Complete Chess Computation ”
- “How to Burn a Magnesium NeXT Cube ”
- “Opinions of Doron Zeilberger ”, Zeilberger 2026
- “Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design ”
- “Futurama Theorem ”
- “Sheepview360 ”
- “Scunthorpe Sans: a Profanity-Blocking Font ”
- “Computer Error Haikus ”, WikiWikiWeb 2026
- “Population Dynamics in Madoka ”
- “BMJ Christmas Issue ”
- “The Roentgen Standard ”, Niven 2026
- “VDT: a Solution to Decision Theory ”
- “Voo Doo: the MIT Journal of Rational Disco and Campus Intercourse ”
- “The Most Popular Chess Streamer on Twitch ”
- “What Are You Paying For in a $300 Chess Set? Mostly the Knights ”
- “How Magnus Carlsen Turned Chess Skill Into a Business Empire ”
- “Star Wars: How Inter-Service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire ”
- “[A Magic: The Gathering Combo That Deals Infinite Damage If the Twin Prime Conjecture Is True] ”
- “Frayn’s Spoof of Wittgenstein ”
- “Seraphim: An Angelic Conlang for Agma Schwa’s Cursed Conlang Contest ”
- “Harder Drive: Hard Drives We Didn’t Want or Need ”, tom7 2026
- “Ptolemy and Homer (Simpson) ”
- erowidrecruiter
- kimkierkegaard
- “Random Number ”, Munroe 2026
- “Bracket Symbols ”, Munroe 2026
- “Correlation ”, Munroe 2026
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia (19)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“A Christmas Protestation ”, o1-pro et al 2024
“Gwern Visits BAIR ”, Liu & Gwern 2025
“Conference Fermi Problems ”, Gwern 2025
“Human Cannibalism Alignment Chart ”, Gwern et al 2025
“The Meta-LW Doomsday Argument ”, Gwern 2025
“DMT Factoring Experiment Cost Estimate ”, Gwern 2015
“Second Life Sentences ”, Gwern 2024
“The Carcinisation of Satan ”, Gwern 2024
“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers ”, Gwern et al 2023
On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers
“Paperclip Alignment Chart ”, Gwern 2023
“Rare Greek Variables ”, Gwern 2021
“Gilles Goullet, Author of the Blindsight ”, Gwern 2010
Links
“Placebo Emporium: 2025 Annual Shareholder Letter ”, Troesh 2025
“The Fine Art of Being Too Dumb to Regulate; Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Betting on Earnings Buzzwords ”, Vagabonds 2025
“My Antichrist Lecture: Forecasting Transformative AI Using the Book of Revelation [Anthropic gematria] ”, Alexander 2025
The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding, Rubin 2025
“[Social Acceptability of Eating Human Meat Alignment Chart] ”, Hero 2025
![[Social acceptability of eating human meat alignment chart]](/doc/philosophy/ethics/2025-05-12-hero-functionvsformalignmentchart-humancannibalism-socialacceptabilityvshumanmeat.jpg){kind=link}
“You Can Never Reproduce The Same Bug Twice Demotivational Poster ”, Gwern 2025
You Can Never Reproduce The Same Bug Twice demotivational poster
“NeuRaLaTeX: A Machine Learning Library Written in Pure LaTeX ”, Gardner et al 2025
NeuRaLaTeX: A machine learning library written in pure LaTeX
“A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon ”, Barber 2025
“Regex Chess: A 2-Ply Minimax Chess Engine in 84,688 Regular Expressions ”, Carlini 2025
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions
“Trajectoid ”, Weinersmith 2024
“Age against the Machine—Susceptibility of Large Language Models to Cognitive Impairment: Cross Sectional Analysis ”
“A Numerical Evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem ”, Woodcock & Falletta 2024
“How a Silly Science Prize Changed My Career: A Levitating Frog, a Necrophiliac Duck, Taxi Drivers’ Brains—The Ig Nobel Prizes Have Shined a Spotlight on Offbeat Work. Here’s an inside Look at How Winners Feel about This Sometimes Unwanted ‘Honor’ ”, Clarke 2024
“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers [Claude-3.5-Sonnet] ”, Claude-3 2024
On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers [Claude-3.5-sonnet]
“Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whales [Terminal Velocity: 178.3 M/s] ”, Ferguson 2024
Towel Day: The Aerodynamics of Freefalling Sperm Whales [terminal velocity: 178.3 m/s]
“A Programming Language Embedded in Magic: The Gathering ”, Yin & Churchill 2024
“An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming ”, Blumer et al 2024
“Are We Safe from Lightning Inside Buildings? A Study of Lightning Fatalities Inside Buildings Using Smartphones ”, Souza et al 2024
“Polyamorous Scheduling ”, Gąsieniec et al 2024
“An Incomplete Primer of Caselaw Appertaining To Bigfoot, AKA Sasquatch, LNU ”, White 2024
An Incomplete Primer of Caselaw Appertaining To Bigfoot, AKA Sasquatch, LNU
“IOCCC 2024: Stedolan—Best One Liner ”
“Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate) ”, saturn2 2023
“A LLM Assisted Exploitation of AI-Guardian ”, Carlini 2023
“The American Psychiatric Association Says Disney Adults Don’t Have to Worry About This Problem Anymore ”, Burkett 2023
“Can a Good Philosophical Contribution Be Made Just by Asking a Question? ”, Habgood-Coote et al 2022
Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?
“Immaterials and Methods: Reagents for the Total Laboratory Synthesis of the Chocolate Chip Cookie ”, Schlonk 2022
Immaterials and Methods: Reagents for the Total Laboratory Synthesis of the Chocolate Chip Cookie :
View PDF:
“A Modest Spelling Reform to Increase Autologicity, Symmetry, and Readability ”
A modest spelling reform to increase autologicity, symmetry, and readability
“Rare Greek Variables ”, Bayer 2021
“Flinch ”, Munroe 2021
“Proposed Detection of Ghosts by Mass Spectrometry-Spectral Presence Origin-Omics Kinetic Yield (MS-SPOOKY) ”, Schlonk 2021
“Are Cats Good? An Important Study ”, Owen & Lamon 2021b
“My Cat Chester’s Dynamical Systems Analysyyyyy7777777777777777y7is of the Laser Pointer and the Red Dot on the Wall: Correlation, Causation, or SARS-Cov-2 Hallucination? ”, Armstrong & Chester 2021
“How Fast Can Evangelion Run? Application Of Aerodynamics And Scaling Laws To The Super Robot ”, Ryu et al 2020
How Fast Can Evangelion Run? Application Of Aerodynamics And Scaling Laws To The Super Robot
“The Treachery of Image Files ”, Earnest 2020
“My Immortal As Alchemical Allegory ”, Alexander 2020
“Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head ”, Merity 2019
“A Mulching Proposal ”, Keyes et al 2019
“30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World ”, Tom7 2019
“Real Numbers, Data Science and Chaos: How to Fit Any Dataset With a Single Parameter ”, Boué 2019
Real numbers, data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter
“Spooky Fizz Buzz § Pg42 ”, Menghrajani 2019 (page 42)
“Allism Spectrum Disorders: A Parody ”, Vance 2018
“Blueberry Earth ”, Sandberg 2018
“The Random Walk of Cars and Their Collision Probabilities With Planets ”, Rein et al 2018
The Random Walk of Cars and Their Collision Probabilities with Planets
“Super-Earths in Need for Extremely Big Rockets ”, Hippke 2018
“An Exploratory Study of ‘Selfitis’ and the Development of the Selfitis Behavior Scale ”, Balakrishnan & Griffiths 2017
An Exploratory Study of ‘Selfitis’ and the Development of the Selfitis Behavior Scale
“It’s a Man Eat Man World ”, Graham et al 2017
“How Sheep With Cameras Got Some Tiny Islands onto Google Street View ”, Brulliard 2017
How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google Street View
“Factoring in the Chicken McNugget Monoid ”, Chapman & O’Neill 2017
“F—K Nuance ”, Healy 2017
“On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines ”, Garfinkel et al 2017
“Seasonality of Auricular Amputations in Rabbits ”, Yaremchuk et al 2017
“Sheep View: Where There’s a Wool, There’s a Way ”, Vega 2016
“[Aristotle], On Trolling ”, Barney 2016
“A Martian Sends a Postcard Home [With Commentary] ”, Raine & Welford 2016
“Identifying the Source of Perytons at the Parkes Radio Telescope ”, Petroff et al 2015
Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope
“Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency: a Model for Male Audience Stimulation ”, Chugtai & Gilfoyle 2014
Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency: a model for male audience stimulation
“Heaven Is Hotter Than Hell & A Refutation ”, Simanek 2014
“The DSM-5: A Dystopian Novel ”, Kriss 2014
“A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors ”, Goodman et al 2014
“Two Curious Integrals and a Graphic Proof ”, Schmid 2014
Two curious integrals and a graphic proof :
View PDF:
“Searching the Internet for Evidence of Time Travelers ”, Nemiroff & Wilson 2013
“XKCD Plots Have Landed in Matplotlib! ”
XKCD Plots have Landed in Matplotlib!
View External Link:
https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matplotlib/
“[What Deals Should the Devil Optimally Betray in Any given Social Graph?] ”, Schou 2013
[What deals should the Devil optimally betray in any given social graph?]
“Robert Bunsen’s Sweet Tooth ”, Jensen 2013
“Your Right Arm For A Publication In AER? ”, Attema et al 2013
“Vigil, the Eternal Morally Vigilant Programming Language ”, munificent 2013
“The Survival Time of Chocolates on Hospital Wards: Covert Observational Study ”, Gajendragadkar et al 2013
The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study
“Is The NIH A Cult? ”, Eisen 2012
“Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific ”, Tippett 2012
Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific
“On the Tumbling Toast Problem ”, Borghi 2012
“Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate ”, Gunji et al 2012
“Non-Detection of the Tooth Fairy at Optical Wavelengths ”, Armstrong 2012
“Gods As Topological Invariants ”, Schoch 2012
“Seat Up or Down? ”, Haslam 2012
“Tiramisu [Lexical Gaps in English Borrowing from Latin] ”, Pullum 2011
“A Parasite from Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin Proved That Lenin Was a Mushroom ”, Yurchak 2011
A Parasite from Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin Proved That Lenin Was a Mushroom
“Up Or Down? A Male Economist’s Manifesto On The Toilet Seat Etiquette ”, Choi 2011
Up Or Down? A Male Economist’s Manifesto On The Toilet Seat Etiquette
“Quantum Computation With Devices Whose Contents Are Never Read ”, Yakaryilmaz et al 2010
Quantum computation with devices whose contents are never read
“Where ‘Things Go The Other Way’: The Stereochemistry of Lewis Carroll’s Looking-Glass World ”, O’Leary 2010
Where ‘Things Go The Other Way’: The Stereochemistry of Lewis Carroll’s Looking-Glass World
“The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution ”, Mankiw & Weinzierl 2010
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
“Are Birds Smarter Than Mathematicians? Pigeons (Columba Livia) Perform Optimally on a Version of the Monty Hall Dilemma ”, Herbranson & Schroeder 2010
“The Name Is Shrdlu… Etaoin Shrdlu ”, D. 2009
“Woosh: A Wonderful Object-Oriented Shell Environment [Unix Directories As Objects] ”, mhinsch 2009
Woosh: A wonderful object-oriented shell environment [Unix directories as objects]
“The Slows ”, Hareven 2009
“Time Variation of a Fundamental Dimensionless Constant ”, Scherrer 2009
“Fill’Er Up With Human Fat [Liposuctioned Human Fat As Biodiesel Fuel] ”, Forbes 2008
Fill’Er Up With Human Fat [liposuctioned human fat as biodiesel fuel]
“Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan ”, Smith 2008
“BREATHTAKING Design Strategy ”, Group 2008
“Possible Girls ”, Sinhababu 2008
“Down-Sizing Forever ”, Scott & Frolop 2008
The SICP Saga, Anonymous 2008
“Rugby (The Religion of Wales) and Its Influence on the Catholic Church: Should Pope Benedict XVI Be Worried? ”, Payne 2008
“Of Cinema, Food, and Desire: Franz Kafka’s ‘Investigations of a Dog’ ”, Williams 2007
Of Cinema, Food, and Desire: Franz Kafka’s ‘Investigations of a Dog’
“Sex, Aggression, and Humour: Responses to Unicycling ”, Shuster 2007
“The Wisdom of Hendrik W. Lenstra Junior ”, Magidin 2006
“Serge Lang, 1927–2005 § Part 1: Paul Vojta, University of California, Berkeley ”, Jorgenson & Krantz 2006 (page 12)
Serge Lang, 1927–2005 § Part 1: Paul Vojta, University of California, Berkeley
“We Are Sorry to Inform You... ”, Santini 2005
“A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Esthetics ”, Mateas & Montfort 2005
A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code esthetics
“Patent Office Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein ”, Norvig 2005
“The Case of the Disappearing Teaspoons: Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Displacement of Teaspoons in an Australian Research Institute ”, Lim et al 2005
“An Adventure in Stereochemistry: Alice in Mirror Image Land ”, Dinan & Yee 2004
“Is Graduate School a Cult? ”, Pannapacker 2004
“Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty: an Early Report of Prosopagnosia? ”, Larner 2004
Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty: an early report of prosopagnosia? :
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“A Proposal to Classify Happiness As a Psychiatric Disorder ”, Bentall 1992
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“A Rebuke of A. B. Smith‘s Paper, 'A Note on Piffles’ ”, Farlow 1980
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“Paul Darwin Foote (1888–1971) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell ”, Astin 1979 (page 12)
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“The First Sally (A), Or, Trurl’s Electronic Bard § Love And Tensor Algebra ”, Lem & Kandel 1974 (page 7)
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“On the Enfeeblement of Mathematical Skills by ‘Modern Mathematics’ and by Similar Soft Intellectual Trash in Schools and Universities ”, Hammersley 1968
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“A Note On Piffles, By A. B. Smith ”, Austin 1967
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A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age, Baker 1963
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“On The Nature Of Mathematical Proof ”, Cohen 1961
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“Mathmanship ”, Vanserg 1958
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